African merchants, the poor ... Just as horrifying as these death marches was the Middle Passage, as it was called -- the transport of slaves across the Atlantic. On the first leg of their ...

The African slave boarding the ship had no idea what lay ahead. Africans who had made the Middle Passage to the plantations of the New World did not return to their homeland to tell what happened ...

From these locations, millions of African people, some of them my ancestors, began their forced migration to the New World. The first mention of the middle passage that I can recall came from my ...

The “Middle Passage to Biloxi” marker also commemorates ... we didn’t acknowledge this history and the contributions of the Africans. This is not about slavery. This is about a group of ...

Saturday's sold-out event featured a four-hour program of modeling scenes, dance performances and musical acts in the Newcomb ...

Hazlewood has described the inescapable movement of his people from one landscape to another: from Africa, through the Middle Passage, to Guyana, and then onward to Europe and North America.

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of ...

No-one was ever charged with the deaths of the drowned Africans. The case received little public attention at the time but came to symbolise the horrors of the Middle Passage and strengthened the ...